Tuesday, October 28, 2014

10 Finding Methods

October 27, 2014

Well, this week started out
great. Elder Feller and I were on some official business outside of the
mission on Monday (really) and we got to buy Burger King. Those two
Whoppers got me through the week. Elder Feller and I have been trying to
test out our mission president’s challenge to use 10 finding methods every
week. I've already mentioned some finding methods from the last weeks,
but here are some we used last week:

1. Street
caricatures. We found an older lady named Ruth that way whose son was a
member, but died a couple of years ago. I actually made a drawing of her
and of her son, by request. We have an appointment tomorrow with the whole family. In fact, when we
visited the house a couple of days ago, she said that her neighbors are talking
about "the gringo that makes free caricatures." The funny thing about this way is that
everyone wants a caricature, but no one wants to be the first to do it.
It always takes us 15 minutes of nothing at first, but when someone is brave
enough to do it, there is immediately a line.

2. Family
history. We used that on Tuesday with a man named Isidor. He just so happened to be on the
street with his great-grandkids, and when we explained it, he showed us his
house—a huge house, where he and his six children live. His six children
with their FAMILIES. We met one of his sons yesterday, a great guy, and
it was interesting, because he told us that two of his brothers died a long
time ago.

3. Giving out
Liahonas on the street.

4. Dropping my
pen. That's one of the few ways I feel like I can contact when passing by
the market. There are just so many people that I don’t know what to
do. So I drop my pen and hope the people behind are kind enough to tap my
back. Then I talk about how dumb I am, etc.

5. Unknown
addresses. We try to look in this black hole list that the area gives us
of members that have apparently moved away. We contact the old house,
then we contact all of their neighbors, as though we're lost.

6. Asking for
directions. I noticed when Elder Feller and I did divisions that I need
to do that every five seconds anyway.

7. Sitting
separated while on the bus. We had a new investigator on Sunday named Ernesto who I met on the bus. He
accepted the invitation for the 29th of November, so we'll see. The nice thing there is that we always have
to use the bus to get from the offices to our area.

8. The
survey. This is just tracting, but the door approach is that we are doing
this important 3-question survey that we need help with. The three
questions: Have you heard that Jesus Christ visited the Americas
personally?, Have you heard of living prophets and apostles?, and Have you ever
heard that your family can be eternal?

9. Trying to
milk referrals out of the whole world

10. The balloon
animals. It’s incredible how that just stops a family in their
tracks. The majority of the families we contacted was that way, because
in the market they sell 50 balloons for 7 soles. The worth of a soul,
right? Anyway, we get a lot of appointments that way, including the
family of a less-active member we would not have found otherwise.

It was a very fun, yet
very tiring week. There will be a lot of fruits this week, so I am very
excited for that. Keep praying for us, and keep praying for us to find
families.

About Us

Davi and Dalton are missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dalton began his mission on Feb 27th and is serving in Peru Lima West. Davi started on March 13, served in the Nevada Las Vegas Mission until her visa came, and now she's in Peru Piura. Davi and Dalton love their Heavenly Father and Savior, love the people of Peru, and love that they have been called to serve there. Three cheers for the greatest thing ever - missionary work!! If you'd like to write them, you can go to dearelder.com and type a letter (at no cost to you) that will be mailed to them as actual mail, which of course they love to get.